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A general history of music : from the earliest ages to the present period. To which is prefixed, a dissertation on the music of the ancients by Charles Burney
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burney, Charles, 1726-1814.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--History and criticism.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 4 v. : (incl. port.) ill. (incl. music) 9 plates (part folded, incl. music) ; 28 x 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for the author, 1776-1789.
- Notes:
- First edition. A 2d edition of v. 1 was published in 1789.
- Vol. 2, printed, like the other 3 vols., with the long s, and with a leaf of "corrections and additions" at end, differs in these and other particulars from a later printing, also dated 1782, but printed with the modern s, as in the 2d edition of v. 1.
- Some of the musical illustrations are engraved.
- With vol. 4 is bound the author's An account of the musical performance in Westminister-abbey, and the Pantheon ... in commemoration of Handel ... London, 1785.
- "Chronological list of the principal books published on the subject of music in England, during the present century": v. 4, p. [687]-688.
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